BILL NUMBER: SB 1771	CHAPTERED  09/30/00

	CHAPTER   1018
	FILED WITH SECRETARY OF STATE   SEPTEMBER 30, 2000
	APPROVED BY GOVERNOR   SEPTEMBER 30, 2000
	PASSED THE SENATE   AUGUST 31, 2000
	PASSED THE ASSEMBLY   AUGUST 30, 2000
	AMENDED IN ASSEMBLY   AUGUST 29, 2000
	AMENDED IN SENATE   MAY 30, 2000
	AMENDED IN SENATE   MAY 2, 2000

INTRODUCED BY   Senator Sher

                        FEBRUARY 23, 2000

   An act to add Chapter 6 (commencing with Section 42800) to Part 4
of Division 26 of the Health and Safety Code, and to add Chapter 8.5
(commencing with Section 25730) to Division 15 of the Public
Resources Code, relating to air pollution.


	LEGISLATIVE COUNSEL'S DIGEST


   SB 1771, Sher.  Greenhouse gas emission reductions:  climate
change.
   (1) Existing law imposes various emission limitations for the
control of vehicular and nonvehicular air pollution.  The State Air
Resources Board is designated by state law as the air pollution
control agency for all purposes set forth in federal law.
   This bill would require the Secretary of the Resources Agency to
establish the California Climate Action Registry as a public benefit
nonprofit corporation, that would record and register voluntary
greenhouse gas emission reductions made by California entities after
1990.  The bill would require the registry to perform various
functions, including adopting standards for verifying emissions
reductions, adopting a list of approved auditors that would verify
emissions reductions, referring entities to approved firms to verify
emissions reductions, establishing emissions reduction goals,
designing and implementing efficiency improvement plans, maintaining
a record of all emissions baselines and reductions, and recognizing,
publicizing, and promoting entities that participate in the registry.

   The bill would also establish responsibilities for the State
Energy Resources Conservation and Development Commission to develop a
process to identify and qualify third-party organizations approved
to provide technical assistance and advice in monitoring greenhouse
gas emissions, setting industry-specific emissions reduction targets,
and developing and implementing efficiency improvement programs.
   (2) Existing law requires the commission, among other things, to
analyze the environmental consequences of trends in the consumption
of energy.  Existing law also requires the commission to have
conducted a study on or before June 1, 1990, regarding the manner in
which global warming trends may affect California's energy supply and
demand, economy, environment, agriculture, and water supplies.
   This bill would require the commission, in consultation with the
state board, the Department of Forestry and Fire Protection, the
Department of Transportation, the State Water Resources Control
Board, the California Integrated Waste Management Board, and any
other state agencies with jurisdiction over matters affecting climate
change, to update, by January 1, 2002, the inventory of greenhouse
gas emissions from all sources located in the state, as identified in
a specified report, and to acquire and develop data and information
on global climate change and provide state, regional, and local
agencies, utilities, business, industry, and other energy and
economic sectors with information on the costs, technical
feasibility, and demonstrated effectiveness of methods for reducing
or mitigating the production of greenhouse gases from in-state
sources.
   The bill would require the commission to update its inventory
every 5 years, and report on the updated inventory to the Governor
and the Legislature.
   The bill would require the commission to conduct at least one
public workshop prior to finalizing each updated inventory.  The bill
would require the commission to post its report and inventory on the
commission's web page on the Internet.  The bill would also require
the commission to convene an interagency task force consisting of
state agencies with jurisdiction over matters affecting climate
change to ensure policy coordination for those activities, and to
establish a climate change advisory committee, as provided, to make
recommendations to the commission on the most equitable and efficient
ways to implement international and national climate change
requirements, as provided.


THE PEOPLE OF THE STATE OF CALIFORNIA DO ENACT AS FOLLOWS:


  SECTION 1.  Chapter 6 (commencing with Section 42800) is added to
Part 4 of Division 26 of the Health and Safety Code, to read:

      CHAPTER 6.  CALIFORNIA CLIMATE ACTION REGISTRY
      Article 1.  Findings and Declarations

   42800.  This chapter shall be known, and may be cited, as the
California Climate Action Registry.
   42801.  The Legislature finds and declares all of the following:
   (a) It is in the best interest of the State of California, the
United States of America, and the earth as a whole, to encourage
voluntary actions to achieve all economically beneficial reductions
of greenhouse gas emissions from California sources.
   (b) Mandatory greenhouse gas emissions reductions may be imposed
on California sources at some future point, and in view of this, the
state has a responsibility to use its best efforts to ensure that
organizations that voluntarily reduce their emissions receive
appropriate consideration for emissions reductions made prior to the
implementation of any mandatory programs.
   (c) Past initiatives in the state that took early and responsible
action to reduce air pollution and ozone smog have demonstrated
political, economic, and technological leadership, and have proven to
benefit the state.
   (d) The state's tradition of environmental leadership should be
recognized through the establishment of a registry to provide
documentation of those greenhouse gas emissions reductions that are
voluntarily achieved by sources in the state.
   (e) The state hereby commits to use its best efforts to ensure
that organizations that establish greenhouse gas emissions baselines
and register emissions results that are verified in accordance with
this chapter receive appropriate consideration under any future
international, federal, or state regulatory scheme relating to
greenhouse gas emissions.  The state cannot guarantee that any
regulatory regime relating to greenhouse gas emissions will recognize
the baselines or reductions recorded in the registry.

      Article 2.  Purposes

   42810.  The purposes of the California Climate Action Registry
shall be to do all of the following:
   (a) Help various entities in the state to establish emissions
baselines against which any future federal greenhouse gas emission
reduction requirements may be applied.
   (b) Encourage voluntary actions to increase energy efficiency and
reduce greenhouse gas emissions.
   (c) Enable participating entities to record voluntary greenhouse
gas emissions reductions made after 1990 in a consistent format that
is supported by third-party verification.
   (d) Ensure that sources in the state receive appropriate
consideration for verified emissions reductions under any future
federal regulatory regime relating to greenhouse gas emissions.
   (e) Recognize, publicize, and promote registrants making voluntary
reductions.
   (f) Recruit broad participation in the process from all economic
sectors and regions of the state.

      Article 3.  Climate Action Registry

   42820.  The Secretary of the Resources Agency shall establish a
nonprofit public benefit corporation, to be known as the California
Climate Action Registry.
   42821. (a) The registry shall be governed by a seven-member board
of directors, to be composed of all of the following members:
   (1) The Secretary of the Resources Agency, or his or her designee.

   (2) The Secretary for Environmental Protection, or his or her
designee.
   (3) Five public members representing business, local government,
and public interest environmental organizations, to be appointed by
the Governor for two-year terms, staggered so that, initially, three
public members serve one-year terms and two members serve two-year
terms.
   (b) The board of directors of the registry is responsible for
ensuring that the registry fulfills the purposes established by this
chapter and meets the financial, reporting, and operating
requirements of its articles of incorporation.  The board of
directors shall appoint and supervise an executive director, who
shall hire and direct staff.
   42822.  (a) The procedures for monitoring, reporting, and
verifying greenhouse gas emissions established by this chapter shall
be the only protocols recognized by the state for the purpose of
defining and reporting greenhouse gas emissions.
   (b) The registry shall adopt a schedule of fees and, after an
initial startup period, charge participants for registry services to
cover the costs of its operations.
   42823.  The registry shall perform all of the following functions:

   (a) Provide referrals to approved providers for advice on all of
the following:
   (1) Designing programs to establish emissions baselines and to
monitor and track greenhouse gas emissions.
   (2) Establishing emissions reduction goals based on international
best practices for specific industries and economic sectors.
   (3) Designing and implementing organization-specific plans that
improve energy efficiency or utilize renewable energy, or both, and
that are capable of achieving emission reduction targets.
   (b) In coordination with the State Energy Resources Conservation
and Development Commission, the registry shall adopt and periodically
update a list of organizations recognized by the state as qualified
to provide the detailed technical advice in subdivision (a) and
assist participants in identifying and selecting providers that have
expertise applicable to each participant's circumstances.
   (c) Adopt standards for verifying emissions and reductions.
   (d) Qualify independent firms that have demonstrated the
capability of verifying and auditing emissions and reduction
quantities and performance, and that are capable of providing
opinions regarding the accuracy of reported results.
   (e) Refer participants to qualified independent auditing firms.
   (f) Adopt a uniform format for reporting emissions baselines and
reductions to facilitate their recognition in any future regulatory
regime.
   (g) Maintain a record of all emissions baselines and reductions
verified by qualified independent auditors.  The public shall have
access to this record, except for any portions of a participant's
emissions results that a participant may deem confidential.
   (h) Encourage organizations from various sectors of the state's
economy, and those from various geographic regions of the state, to
monitor emissions, establish baselines and reduction targets, and
implement efficiency improvement and renewable energy programs to
achieve those targets.
   (i) Recognize, publicize, and promote participants that do any of
the following:
   (1) Commit to monitor their emissions and set reduction targets.
   (2) Establish emissions baselines.
   (3) Report the quantity of their annual emissions progress.
   42824.  Participation in the registry is voluntary.  Any entity
conducting business in the state may register its emissions results,
including emissions generated outside of the state, on an entitywide
basis with the registry, and may utilize the services of the
registry.

      Article 4.  Procedures for Reporting, Monitoring, and Verifying
Emissions

   42840.  (a) Participants shall utilize the following reporting
procedures:
   (1) To establish an emissions baseline, participants shall report
their actual emissions for the most recent year for which they have
complete energy use and fuel consumption data as specified in this
chapter.  Participants that have complete energy use or fuel
consumption data for earlier years that can be verified by
independent auditors may establish their baseline as any year
beginning after January 1, 1990.  After establishing a baseline,
participants shall report their verified emissions results in each
subsequent year in order to record changes in emissions levels with
respect to their baseline year.  Participants may report annual
emission results without establishing an emissions baseline.
   (2) (A) Participants shall report emissions baselines and annual
emissions results expressed by a fraction in terms of emissions
efficiency rates, as follows:
   (i) Private corporations and cooperatives other than electric
generators shall report carbon dioxide emissions per dollar of
revenue.
   (ii) Electric generators shall report emissions of carbon dioxide
per kilowatthour.
   (iii) Nonprofit organizations and governmental agencies shall
report carbon dioxide emissions per dollar of budgetary expenditure
plus amortized capital expenditures.
   (iv) Participants shall report both the numerator and the
denominator of the fraction that determines their emission efficiency
rate.
   (B) The numerator utilized by each participant under subparagraph
(A) shall include all actual emissions of greenhouse gases, expressed
in terms of carbon dioxide equivalence.  Participants shall report
revenue and budgetary expenditures in year 2000 constant dollars.
   (C) To complement or replace the general metrics described in
subparagraph (A), the registry shall adopt industry-specific
reporting metrics, linked to or based upon internationally accepted
standards, as these become available, if both the State Energy
Resources Conservation and Development Commission and the State Air
Resources Board recommend their adoption, unless the board of
directors of the registry determines that using industry-specific
metrics would not further the purposes of this chapter.
   (D) To help ensure that reported emissions do not diverge from
actual emissions results, emissions reporting from corporations in
industries deemed by the board of directors of the registry to be
facing rapid changes in prices for their goods or services may be
adjusted pursuant to a process to be recommended by the State Energy
Resources Conservation and Development Commission.
   (E) The registry may adopt guidelines encouraging participants to
report emissions in relation to the annual average business-as-usual
rate of improvement in the energy efficiency of the state economy, as
determined periodically by the State Energy Resources Conservation
and Development Commission.
   (b) Participants shall report direct emissions and indirect
emissions.  Direct emissions include, but are not limited to, those
emissions directly influenced by the participant's operations,
including onsite combustion, fugitive noncombustion emissions, and
vehicles owned and operated by the participant.  Indirect emissions
include, but are not limited to, those emissions embodied in
electricity consumption and those resulting from offsite steam
generation and district heating and cooling.  After two years of
operation, the registry shall consider phasing in guidelines for the
measurement and reporting of indirect emissions associated with a
participant's transportation-based activities, including, but not
limited to, shipping of products and materials, employee commuting,
and purchased air travel, pursuant to definitions and measurement
procedures to be determined by the State Energy Resources
Conservation and Development Commission not later than July 1, 2003.

   (c) (1) All participants shall report direct and indirect
emissions of carbon dioxide (CO2).
   (2) The registry shall also encourage participants to monitor and
report emissions of the following gases:
   (A) Hydrofluorocarbons (HFCs).
   (B) Methane (CH4).
   (C) Oxides of nitrogen (N2O).
   (D) Perfluorocarbons (PFCs).
   (E) Sulfur hexafluoride (SF6).
   (3) The report of information specified in paragraph (2) is
optional for three years after a participant joins the registry.
After participating in the registry for a total of three years,
participants shall report emissions and reductions required by both
paragraphs (1) and (2).
   (4) Emissions and reductions of all gases under this subdivision
shall be reported by multiplying actual measured emissions times
their global warming potential for the 100-year timeframe, expressed
as an equivalent of pounds of CO2, as established by the
Intergovernmental Panel on Climate Change.
   (d) The basic unit of participation in the registry shall be an
entity in its entirety.  For the purposes of this chapter, "entity"
means any corporation filing a separate tax return, any city or
county, and each state government agency.  The registry shall not
record emissions baselines and reductions for individual facilities
or projects, except to the extent they are included in an entity's
emissions reporting.
   (1) Corporations may report emissions baselines and annual
emissions results from subsidiaries if the parent corporation
submits, in writing to the registry, a commitment to report
corporatewide emissions within three years of first registering its
subsidiary's emissions results.  Corporations that do not report
corporatewide emissions within this three-year period shall have the
emissions baselines and the results of its previously registered
subsidiary removed from the registry list.
   (2) Participants shall report emissions from all sources in the
state when they initially register, and shall report emissions from
all operations based in the United States, including any facility,
division, or other entity in which the participant owns more than
50-percent interest within three years of joining the registry.  In
addition, the registry shall encourage corporations with operations
outside of the United States to register their total worldwide
emissions baselines and annual emissions results.
   (3) To ensure that reported emissions reflect actual emissions
reductions, participants that outsource production or services shall
report emissions associated with the outsourced activity, and remove
these emissions from their emissions baseline.  The subcontracted
entity, if it voluntarily chooses to participate in the registry
shall report emissions associated with the outsourced activities it
has taken over.  Participants shall attest at least once each year
that the entity has not outsourced any emissions, or that if it has,
that all emissions associated with the outsourced activity have been
reported and subtracted from the entity's baseline emissions.
   (4) To prevent changes in vertical integration within corporations
from leading to apparent emissions reductions when in fact no
reductions have occurred, the registry shall treat mergers,
acquisitions, and divestitures as follows:
   (A) The emissions baselines of any merged or acquired entity shall
be added together, and the registry shall treat the resulting entity
as if it had been one corporation from the beginning.
   (B) In divestitures, the emissions baselines of the affected
corporations shall be split, with the effect that the registry shall
treat them as if they had been separate corporations from the
beginning.  If the divested corporation is purchased by another firm,
the registry shall treat that purchase as a merger with the
purchasing corporation.  If the divested corporation remains a
separate entity after the divestiture, its registry baseline shall
reflect the emissions associated with the entity's operations before
the divestiture.  Corporations that divest operations may allocate
verified emissions reductions achieved prior to the divestiture among
the divesting and the divested entities, and the registry shall
adjust their baselines accordingly.
   (C) Any such adjustments for changes in vertical integration shall
be verified in the annual emissions audits required for recordation
of emissions results.
   42841.  (a) To support the measurement and reporting of emissions
in a consistent format, the registry shall adopt standardized forms
and emissions tracking software that all participants shall use to
calculate and report emissions.  The registry may choose to accept
the forms presently required by other voluntary emissions reporting
programs if it finds the forms adequate to meet the criteria of this
chapter.  Use of any other forms shall not alter any requirements
imposed by this chapter.
   (b) The procedures established for all of the following shall
conform to the requirements of Article 6 (commencing with Section
42870):
   (1) Establishing electricity and fuel usage and for calculating
associated emissions.
   (2) Mass-balance calculations of emissions from, or stack testing
or continuous emissions monitoring of, greenhouse gases from onsite
fuel combustion.
   (3) Measuring and verifying noncombustion emissions of the gases
listed in paragraphs (1) and (2) of subdivision (c) of Section 42840.

   (4) Collecting and maintaining data and records of energy, fuel,
and chemical consumption sufficient to allow contemporaneous and ex
post verification of direct and indirect emissions.
   42842.  (a) Participants in the registry shall hire, at their own
expense, a third-party organization qualified pursuant to subdivision
(b) to independently verify and attest to the accuracy of the
emissions results reported to the registry each year.
   (b) The registry shall adopt an approved list of organizations
recognized as competent to measure, test, and verify emissions
results and able to provide an independent opinion as to the
completeness and accuracy thereof.  The process for evaluating and
approving these organizations shall be developed in coordination with
the State Energy Resources Conservation and Development Commission.
The registry may reopen the qualification process periodically in
order for new organizations to be added to the approved list.
   (c) The registry shall refer participants to the organization on
the approved list described in subdivision (b).
   (d) Organizations approved pursuant to subdivision (b) shall
review participants' energy usage records and emissions calculations
and, where necessary to establish or confirm emissions rates or
quantities, perform direct measurement, monitoring, and testing of
emissions after noting adjustments or otherwise accounting for any
changes in the corporate organization of the entity or use of
outsourcing, and shall summarize its review in a report to the board
of directors, or equivalent governing body, of the participating
entity, attesting to the accuracy of the reported emissions results
and noting any exceptions, omissions, limitations, or other
qualifications to their representation of accuracy.
   (e) The State Energy Resources Conservation and Development
Commission shall perform an occasional review and evaluation of
participants' emissions monitoring and documentation, by accompanying
third-party auditors on field visits to participants' sites on a
randomly chosen basis, and shall report any findings in writing to
the registry.  The registry shall include these findings in the
annual report to the Governor and the Legislature required by Article
5 (commencing with Section 42860).
   42843.  Not later than July 1, 2003, and periodically thereafter,
the registry shall evaluate and review the emission reporting metrics
described in subdivision (b) of Section 42870, in light of knowledge
gained from the actual practice of measuring, monitoring,
documenting, and verifying emissions, and, in consultation with the
State Energy Resources Conservation and Development Commission, may
modify or revise those reporting metrics as appropriate to further
the purposes of this chapter.

      Article 5.  Annual Report

   42860.  Not later than July 1, 2003, and biennially thereafter,
the registry shall report to the Governor and the Legislature on the
number of organizations participating in the registry, the percentage
of the state's emissions represented by the participants in the
registry, and the reductions in greenhouse gas emissions achieved by
those participants.

      Article 6.  Responsibilities of the State Energy Resources
Conservation and Development Commission

   42870.  The State Energy Resources Conservation and Development
Commission shall do all of the following:
   (a) Develop a process to identify and qualify third-party
organizations approved to provide technical assistance and advice in
any or all of the areas of monitoring greenhouse gas emissions, set
industry-specific emissions reduction targets, and develop and
implement efficiency improvement programs appropriate to various
industries and economic sectors.  The process shall do all of the
following:
   (1) Define the minimum technical and organizational capabilities
and other qualifications approved firms are required to meet.
   (2) Call for applications or otherwise encourage interested
organizations to submit their qualifications for review.
   (3) Evaluate applicant organizations according to this list of
qualification standards.
   (4) Recommend, not later than July 1, 2001, specific organizations
to the registry as qualified to provide the technical assistance
functions of this chapter.
   (5) Update the list of approved technical assistance providers
every third year by doing all of the following:
   (A) Reviewing the capabilities of already approved providers.
   (B) Reviewing applications of new providers.
   (C) Recommending to the registry specific organizations to be
added to the approved list, and specific organizations no longer
qualified to provide the technical assistance duties of this chapter.

   (b) Develop or update certain emissions reporting metrics by doing
all of the following:
   (1) Review, in coordination with the State Air Resources Board,
industry-specific greenhouse gas reporting metrics linked to or based
on internationally accepted standards, as these become available
periodically and advise the registry of its opinion as to whether the
adoption of such sectoral or industry-specific metrics to complement
or replace the general metrics established in Section 42840 would
further the purposes of this chapter.
   (2) On or before July 1, 2001, develop an emissions reporting
metric for corporations in industries experiencing rapid changes in
real prices, to ensure that reported emissions efficiency rates do
not diverge from actual changes in emissions efficiency, and
recommend this metric to the registry for adoption.
   (3) On or before July 1, 2003, determine the annual average
business-as-usual rate of improvement in the energy efficiency of the
state economy over the last 10 years and recommend to the registry
whether participants in the registry should explicitly report
emissions in relation to this ongoing rate of efficiency improvement.

   (4) By July 1, 2003, recommend to the registry for possible
adoption a procedure for defining and measuring transportation-based
emissions associated with registry participants' activities,
including, but not limited to, shipping of products and materials,
employee commuting, and purchased air travel.
   (c) Develop, not later than July 1, 2001, definitive procedures to
guide registry participants and third-party verifiers in all of the
following processes:
   (1) Establishing entities' electricity usage and calculating CO2
emissions associated with such usage.
   (2) Establishing entities' fuel usage and calculating CO2
emissions associated with such usage.
   (3) Determining, for emissions from onsite fuel combustion, the
circumstances in which mass-balance calculations may be used to
estimate emissions, the circumstances in which stack testing or
continuous emissions monitoring of greenhouse gases shall be
considered necessary, and the procedures for conducting stack testing
or monitoring when they are considered necessary.
   (4) Measuring and verifying the noncombustion emissions of the six
greenhouse gases with which the registry is concerned.
   (5) Collecting and maintaining data and records of energy, fuel,
and chemical consumption sufficient to allow both contemporaneous and
ex post verifications of direct and indirect emissions on an
entity-wide basis.
   (d) Develop, not later than January 1, 2002, a process for
qualifying verification and auditing organizations recognized by the
State of California as competent to measure, test, and verify the
emissions results of the types of entities that may choose to
participate in this registry, by doing all of the following:
   (1) Developing a list of the minimum technical and organizational
capabilities and other qualification standards such verification and
auditing organizations shall meet.  Those qualifications shall
include the ability to sign an opinion letter, for which they may be
held financially at risk, and attesting that the emissions results
they have corroborated or reviewed are complete and accurate as
reported.
   (2) Publicizing an applications process or otherwise encouraging
interested organizations to submit their qualifications for review.
   (3) Evaluating applicant organizations according to the list of
qualifications described in paragraph (1).
   (4) Recommending specific third-party organizations to the
registry as qualified to verify participants' actual emissions
results in accordance with this chapter.
   (5) Every third year, updating the list of approved verification
organizations by doing all of the following:
   (A) Reviewing the capabilities of approved organizations.
   (B) Reviewing applications of organizations seeking to become
approved.
   (C) Recommending to the registry specific organizations to be
added to the approved list, and specific organizations no longer
qualified to perform the duties of this chapter.
   (e) Occasionally, and on a random basis, accompany third-party
auditors on field visits to participants' sites, to observe and
evaluate the adequacy of any stack testing or other direct monitoring
procedures, perform their own review of the documentation underlying
participants' basis for reporting emissions, and report in writing
to the registry on these findings, all to further ensure that
reported emissions results accurately reflect actual emissions; that
registry participants collect and retain adequate data on their
energy and fuel use; and that qualified independent verification and
auditing firms monitor and verify actual emissions in accordance with
this chapter.
  SEC. 2.  Chapter 8.5 (commencing with Section 25730) is added to
Division 15 of the Public Resources Code, to read:

      CHAPTER 8.5.  CLIMATE CHANGE INVENTORY AND INFORMATION

   25730.  The commission, in consultation with the State Air
Resources Board, the Department of Forestry and Fire Protection, the
Department of Transportation, the State Water Resources Control
Board, the California Integrated Waste Management Board, and other
state agencies with jurisdiction over matters affecting climate
change, shall do all of the following:
   (a) On or before January 1, 2002, update the inventory of
greenhouse gas emissions from all sources located in the state, as
identified in the commission's 1998
          report entitled, "Appendix A:  Historical and Forecasted
Greenhouse Gas Emissions Inventories for California."  Information on
natural sources of greenhouse gas emissions shall be included to the
extent that information is available.  The inventory shall include
information that compares emissions from similar inventories prepared
for the United States and other states or countries, and shall
include information on relevant current and previous energy and air
quality policies, activities, and greenhouse gas emissions reductions
and trends since 1990, to the extent that information is available.

   (b) Acquire and develop data and information on global climate
change, and provide state, regional, and local agencies, utilities,
business, industry, and other energy and economic sectors with
information on the costs, technical feasibility, and demonstrated
effectiveness of methods for reducing or mitigating the production of
greenhouse gases from in-state sources, including net reductions
through the management of natural forest reservoirs.  The commission,
in consultation with the State Air Resources Board, shall provide a
variety of forums for the exchange of that information among
interested parties, and shall provide other state agencies with
information on cost-effective and technologically feasible methods
that can be used to reduce or mitigate the emissions of greenhouse
gases.
   (c) Update its inventory every five years using current scientific
methods, and report on the updated inventory to the Governor and the
Legislature.
   (d) Conduct at least one public workshop prior to finalizing each
updated inventory.  The commission shall post its report and
inventory on the commission's web page on the Internet.
   (e) Convene an interagency task force consisting of state agencies
with jurisdiction over matters affecting climate change to ensure
policy coordination at the state level for those activities.
   (f) Establish a climate change advisory committee, to the extent
that the commission determines that it can do so within existing
resources.  This advisory committee shall make recommendations to the
commission on the most equitable and efficient ways to implement
international and national climate change requirements based on cost,
technical feasibility, and relevant information on current energy
and air quality policies and activities and on greenhouse gas
emissions reductions and trends since 1990.  The commission shall
designate one of its commissioners as chair, and shall include on the
advisory committee members who represent business, including major
industrial and energy sectors, utilities, forestry, agriculture,
local government, and environmental groups.  The meetings of the
advisory committee shall be open to the public, and shall provide an
opportunity for the public to be heard on matters considered by the
advisory committee.
